Curtain-pole



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

kEDWARD ROOS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CURTAIN-POLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,316. dated May s. 1887.

Application tiled July 13, 1885. Serial No. 171,424. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, EDWARD Roos, a citizen of the United States, residing in Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Poles, of which 'the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in curtain-poles provided with end ornaments formed separate and afterward attached 'to the pole.

Prior to my invention these ornaments have had their ends next the pole solid and straight and of substantially the same diameter as the pole, so that said ends form a continuation of the pole, to which they have been secured by means of 'a metal screw or dowel-pin set in the end of the ornament and projected into the end of the pole. Y A

The attachment of an ornament end to end with `the pole is objectionable, because the joint will show more or less, however nicely made, and for the further reason that it requires both ends to be perfectly square and of the same diameter, which requirements not only are difficult, but require skill and time to comply with them, and, besides, as regards a reduction of diameter, is not practical when the pole and ornament is enameled or similarly finished, as is usually the case before any effort is made to attach them together. These objections are not reduced, but materially increased, by the employment of dowel-pins and screws, because, unless said dowel-pins and screws and dowels are centered, a neat joint is impossible, even though the opposing ends of the pole and ornament are squared and of equal diameter, and it is not only ditlicult to center the screw in both members, but impractical when the screws from any cause `are bent or defective, which is frequently the case, and results in rendering the ornament unfit for use.

The object of this invention is therefore to provide such a connection between an' end ornament and pole that when in use there will be no joint visible between them, and that the end of the pole isnot necessarily squared or of the same diameter as the end ornament, in order to preserve such a joint and a perfeet alignment between the pole and ornament. I attain these objects by devices illus-- trated in the accompanying drawings, in i The end ornament, B, may be of any desired configuration, and has its end next the pole of larger diameter than the latter and provided with a socket, C, having its side walls tapering, but not necessarily so much as shown in the drawings, though sufliciently to permit poles varying slightly in diameter to project therein far enough to enable the ornament to be tightened thereon; and in this connection it may be stated that the bottom of the socket is not necessarily squared, though it maybe, if desired. The end of the pole is shown as inclined, but merely for the purpose of illustrating that it need not be squared for the purpose ofsecuring a neat joint between the pole and ornament and maintaining both devices in alignment with each other. The tapering form of the socket not only permits the ornametn to project over the pole, so as to hide-the joint when 4the pole is in its operative position above a door or window, but enables the operator, when tightening the ornament upon the pole, at the same time toalign the ornament with the pole, which he can do without much effort, owing to the small area of frictional or biting surface between the two devices. Y

It is not intended that the socket should taper sufficiently for poles which varyin size in a strict sense, but poles ofa size in which there is invariably and unavoidably slight differences in diameter, resulting from shrinking or swelling or a difference of thickness of f coating of enamel, ebonizing, or other finishing materials.

I am aware that curtain-rollers have been I OO Having described my invention, what I provided with it combined cap and journal in claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

:t single piece, into it socket of which cap the roller is inserted, and also that coffin-handle is-d tips have been provided with a straight socket, A curtain-pole, in combination with an end 1 5 5 and thcreforemekeciaim to no such devices; ornament provided with a. tapering socket but I am not aware that before my invention receiving the pole, substantially as described. a curtain-pole had been socketed in an end ornament, or that such a tip or cap as above EDVARD ROOS' referred to has had :L tapering socket, whereby Witnesses: Io the device t0 which they are attached could be JNO. G. ELLIOTT,

tightened in said socket. XV. XV. ELLIOTT.

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